Washing-machine.



PATENTBD AUG. 21, 1906.

H. BORN'EMAN. WASHING MACHINE.

A-PPLIOATION FILED JULY15. 1905.

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ATTORNEYS.

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UNITED STATES HENRY BORNEMAN,

PATENT OFFICE.

TO ADRIAN BAKKER, OF PASSAIG, NEW JERSEY.

WASHING-MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 21, 1906.

Application filed July 15,1905. Serial No. 269,841.

T0 at whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY BORNEMAN, a citizen of the United States, residing in Paterson, county of Passaic, State of New Jer sey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Washing-Machines; and I' do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to characters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to washing-machines of that type in which an open or perforate cylinder is arranged in a tub or other container for the clothes and the washing solution.

The principal object of the invention is to provide a machine of the kind referred to which shall be capable of quickly and thoroughly effecting the cleansing of the clothes with the least amount of exertion on the part of the operator and which shall be simple, light, and strong in construction and adapted to withstand, particularly in its cylinder part, the effects of water-soaking and of such handling as the same in ordinary use may be put to. V

Referring to the accom anying drawings, Figure 1 is a view in side e evation of my improved washing-machine, showing a portion of the tub broken away; and Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the machine with the cover removed.

In said drawings, a is a box or tub of preferably rectangular form supported on legs I) and having a discharge-nozzle c. This box or tub is of course designed to receive the cleansing solution, which may be drawn ofi through the nozzle.

Referring to the cylinder, d is a shaft on which are arranged two spiders e and two sheet-metal circular plates f, (say of zinc,) abutting against said spiders. The plates are spaced by cross-pieces g, preferably of wood, the spiders, plates, and cross-pieces bein bound together by bolts h, arranged parallel with the shaft (1 and penetrating said and cross-pieces. The crosspieces 9 are eo uidistantly spaced and have their outer sur aces set flush, or substantially so, with the peripheries of the plates f, being cross-sectionally segmental. Set in the spaces between the cross-pieces and fitting snugly therein are segments i, preferably of wood, the same being disposed against the inside faces of the plates f and having their outer faces flush, or substantially so, with the peripheries of said plates. Said segments are formed with opposed holes or sockets j, which receive the ends of a series of cross-bars 7c. The cross-bars, segments 11, and plates f are secured or bound together .by tie-rods l, which pentetrate all of them. This is true with respect to all the segments and cross-bars, except two opposed segments and their crossbars, which being formed as one structure, as above described, are hinged at m to one of the cross-pieces g, so that upon being swung open, as shown in dotted outline, Fig. 1, access may be had to the inside of the cylinder. The structure referred to may be held closed by buttons 7 on the adjoining cross-piece g. In the cross-pieces g are set pegs 0. The same are disposed in stepped arrangement i. 0., in different parallel planes perpendicular to the axis of the cylinder. This arrangement I find is of considerable importance in that the pegs thereby thoroughly agitate the clothes without causing them to gather in a compact mass. The pegs are, furthermore, conical in form, their smaller ends being toward the cross-pieces, so that thus they cause the clothes to be lifted to a material height before permitting them to fall. The cylinder thus constructed is journaled at one end in a socket-piece p, set in one side of the tub, and a bearing-piece g, arranged in the opposite side of the tub, with the portion r thereof, which affords the bearing proper for the shaft opposite a slot 8 in the s1de of the tub. (This slot may be closed by a wooden plug t when the machine is in operation, whereby to keep the steam from escaping.) The arrangement of the bearings just described permits the cylinder to be raised at one end and its shaft thereupon removed at the other end from the socket-piece p whenever it is necessary to remove from the tub.

The bearing-piece Q has one end rebent at a, and in its rebent portion is journaled a shaft 0, carrying a crank w and a pinion x,

meshing with a pinion y, removably mounted on the squared end 2 of shaft (1.

1 is a suitable cover hinged to the top of the cylinder the tub, and 2 is a suitable device for securing it closed, if desired.

Havin thus fully described my invention, What I c aim asnew, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination of a tub, and a perforate cylinder j ournaled in said tub and comprising tWo opposed spaced heads, parallel crosspieces connecting said heads, se ments disposed against the inside faces ol the heads and fitted each into a space between the ends of adjacent cross-pieces, parallel-spaced crossbars connecting opposite segments, means for securing all said segments except tWo op 15 posite segments to the heads comprising tiebars penetrating the same, the cross-bars and the heads, said tie-bars clamping the crossbars, heads and segments penetrated thereby in fixed relation to each other, and means for pivotally connecting the structure, compris- 2o ing said last two segments and the cross-bars connecting them, to an adjoining cross-piece, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 24th day of 2 5 

